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Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas Article 311 TFEU also stipulates that the budget shall, without prejudice to other revenue, be financed wholly from own resources and allows the Council to establish new categories of own resources or abolish an existing category, providing ~~thus the~~a legal basis for ~~an in- depth~~ reform of the own resources system;

2014/03/11
Committee: BUDG

Marta ANDREASEN

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas Parliament has continuously called for the EU budget to be financed wholly by ~~genuine~~ own resources, as ~~stipulated~~provided for in the Treaty; whereas it has regularly highlighted the shortcomings and limits of the existing system of own resources, the lack of transparency and high complexity of which make it ~~totally~~ incomprehensible to ~~European citizens, who ultimately bear the consequences~~citizens of the member states who do not at present see a deduction on their payslip or a specific tax on their fuel, alcohol or financial transactions to fund the EU;

2014/03/11
Committee: BUDG

Marta ANDREASEN

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas national contributions to the EU budget, which amount nowadays to around 85 % of the total EU revenue, cannot be considered as a ~~genuine~~n own resource as they ~~simply~~ constitute transfers from national treasuries; whereas this situation has reinforced, over decades, the logic of ‘fair return’ that has also clearly prevailed in the conclusions of the European Council of 7-8 February 2013 on the MFF 2014-2020 and has largely prevented a structural reform of the EU budgetin fact been beneficial as it has enabled some restraint to be exercised in difficult times;

2014/03/11
Committee: BUDG

Marta ANDREASEN

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas Parliament has consistently manifested its support for the Commission proposals, presented in June 2011, which – by reducing the share of national contributions to the EU budget to a maximum of 40 %, abolishing the current VAT-based contribution, creating two new and genuine own resources and replacing all rebates and correction mechanisms by a system of lump sums for the period 2014-2020 – took a step in the right direction by bringing the EU budget revenue side into line with the letter and spirit of the Treaty, and which, as such, from the outset gained the support of an overwhelming majority in Parliament;delete

2014/03/11
Committee: BUDG

Marta ANDREASEN

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas ~~despite its discontent with the inability of Council to progress on the reform of the system of own resources,~~ Parliament eventually gave its consent to the MFF regulation in November 2013, following also the agreement by Council on the establishment of the High-Level Group on Own Resources; whereas, on that occasion, the Lithuanian Presidency declared its commitment to organise the inaugural meeting of this Group on 18-19 December 2013; whereas, due to delay within the Council ~~to decide on its three representatives to this High-Level Group~~, this meeting has not yet taken place;

2014/03/11
Committee: BUDG

Marta ANDREASEN

G. whereas the High-Level Group on Own Resources aims at producing a first assessment of the current system~~’s shortcomings~~ by the end of 2014, with a final outcome in 2016 to be assessed at an inter-institutional conference in the presence of national parliaments; whereas the High-Level Group shall examine all aspects of the reform of the own resources system with a view of providing the Commission with the necessary means to propose a successful reform for the period covered by the next Multiannual Financial Framework;

2014/03/11
Committee: BUDG

Marta ANDREASEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. ~~Welcom~~Notes the Council’s agreement to lay down implementing measures for the Union’s own resources as provided for in the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union;

2014/03/11
Committee: BUDG

Marta ANDREASEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. ~~Deplores the fact~~Notes that the Council has not been able to make any progress on the reform of the own resources system on the basis of the legislative proposals put forward by the Commission;

2014/03/11
Committee: BUDG

Marta ANDREASEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Maintains its call for reform of the own resources system of the European Union in order to make it simple, transparent, visible and understandable to EU citizens~~, thereby reinforcing the EU citizens’ link to the European project and, at the same time, reducing the burden on Member States’ national treasuries~~;

2014/03/11
Committee: BUDG

Marta ANDREASEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Places high expectations on the work of the High-Level Group on Own Resources, which it believes offers a unique opportunity to overcome the current blockage of the reform of the system of own resources; strongly regrets that the High-Level Group has not yet started its work; calls for its inaugural meeting to be convened without delay, in compliance with the objectives and the calendar set out in the joint declaration establishing the High Level Group on Own Resources annexed to the MFF (2014-2020) regulation;delete

2014/03/11
Committee: BUDG

10 Amendments of Marta ANDREASEN related to 2014/2020(INI)

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